Driving-gear for steering-wheels.



PA? NTBD NOV. 6, MW?

A. P. PASELK. DRIVlNG GEAR FDR STEERING 'WHBE APPLICATION FILED NOV.4,1905.

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DRlVlNG-GEAR FOR STEERING-WHEELS Specification ofLettei-s Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1966 Application filed November 4,1905. Serial No. 285,830.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, AUGUST F. PASELK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Inigpvement in Driving- Gear for Steeringreels; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to driving mechanism for vehicles.

It has for its object an improved means for driving the forward or steering wheels of the vehicle without interfering with the capacity of the individual wheel to be swung on its Vertical axis.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a pair of wheels of which the right wheel is in section, and the mechanism of this invention is shown thereon. Fig. 2 is an enlargedview in section showing the drivingear? Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the hub.

1 indicates a hollow axle, which extends from the housing 2 of the differential gear at the middle of the axle outward and terminates with a housing 3, in which is located a vertical shaft 4, journaled in bearings in the housing. For structural reasons of assembling the parts the housing 3 ismade in two parts, which are bolted together.

Within the hollow axle 1 is a driving-shaft 5, which extends from the diifercntial gear in the housing 2 and terminates in the housing 3 and has mounted on its terminal a mitergear 6. The vertical shaft t carries a mitergearj7, which meshes with the gear 6. The hub 8 of the wheel is mounted on ashort axle 9, that engages pivotally on the vertical shaft 4. The means of mounting consists of first a nipple 10, with a collar 11, which nipple is screwed into the housing 3. A bushing '12, located within the nipple 10, serves as the contact-bearing for the shaft 4. The collar 11 is at the outer end of the nip 1e ou tside the axle 9. Between the body 0 the ni ple and the body of the axle is a short busi 13, with a collar located inside the hollow of the axle or the fork of the axle and arranged tobear directly on the housing 3 and' to, serve as the pivotal bearing for the axle.

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The shaft escarries at its outer end outside the housing and" outside the wheel axle, through which it protrudes, a miter-gear 14, which meshes with an annular gear 1 5 that is secured to the hub of the wheel. The wheel itself is heldto-the axle by ball-bearings, one

set of which is-at the outer end and engages between the hub 8 and the axle 9. The hub and the'axle 9 are both provided with cups and cones to retain the balls in place, and a cap 17 isscrewed onto the end of the hub to cover and protect the ball-race and the ends of the axle.

On the o posite or inner side of the wheel the hub is rawn in or contracted to form a housing for the miter-gear 14, and at the contracted part the hub 8 and the inner end of axle '9 are provided with cups and cones to retain the balls. The two balltracks, with their contained balls, afford a long shaft 5, and nevertheless it can be easily and'readily turned on the vertical axis 4 thereof, a driving-shaft within the hollow axle, a set-ond driving-shaft perpendicular to the iirst ljournaled to project through the housing, interconnecting gear between the driving-shaft and necting gear between the wheel and the second shaft, the said lastementioned interconnecting gear being located within a housing formed between the hub of the wheel and the wheel-axle, substantially. s described.

- 2. In combination, a hollow axle terminatin with a housing, a shaft within said hollow ax e provided with a;bevel-gear at its ter- *minal within the housing, a second shaft at right angles to the driving-shaft journaled in bearings 1n the housing projecting, through the housing and provided within the hous ng with a beveled gear and without therhousing with a second beveled gear, a short wheelaxle concave and with the concavity engaging over the housing and. beingin pivotal connection with the second shaft, a wheel provided with a concave hub engaging with bearing along the axle as between the wheel and the short axle on which it turns, and the wheel itself is easily driven from the.

the sec'ond shaft, interconhearings at me outer end of said axle and at 1 In testim oily whereof I sign-this specilica the mne r end of sand axle, wlth the secondt1on1n the presence of two w tnesses. mentioned shalt lving between the bearings, G s A E l l A. a beveled Wheel earned by the hub and AU U T F P S L 5 'meslnng with the beveled wheel on said Vlhtnesses:

shaft external to the hous ng ten'mnatlng the CHARLES F. BURTON,

hollow axle, substantially as described. WILLIAM M. SWAN. 

